With France in the midst of a political crisis, the Elysée must deal with a new scandal. According to some rumors spread by the newspaper The World and not confirmed, Emmanuel Macron he allegedly uttered racist and homophobic phrases. The words that ended up at the center of the fuss would have been pronounced in private and would concern black people, Arabs and homosexuals. And even though the Elysée promptly denied it, the wrath of the Paris gauche has not abated.
Among Macron's alleged controversial outings, in fact, an exchange he had in 2023 with the then Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseauabout the difficulties of the national health system. “The problem with emergency rooms in this country is that it's full of Mamadou“, Macron would have declared, thus targeting black-skinned doctors and white coats.
But that's not all. Another shocking phrase that the French president is said to have uttered is the one said during an interview with the far-right weekly Current Values in 2019, when he allegedly used the derogatory term “rabzous” (rabid) to indicate French people of Maghrebi origin. As for homosexuals, Macron would have renamed them “petits pédés” or “Great Tarlouzes”. In short, a very derogatory term.
In the piece published by The World it is reported that in the corridors of the Elysée the seat of the prime minister (Matignon) was jokingly renamed “La cage aux folles” (The title is a play on French words, untranslatable into Italian, between 'mad cage' and 'cage of faggots') when the prime minister was Gabriel Attal. In the meantime, the left is rising up: “These racist words from the President of the Republic, taken up by the newspaper Le Monde, are an insult to the Republic. It's an absolute disgrace. I hope he goes away”, protested the de coordinator Insoumise France (Lfi), Manuel Bompardwhile the communist Ian Brossat he pointed the finger at “undoubtedly racist words”. The denial from the presidential palace was timely. “It is astonishing how some words clearly taken from vegan political opponents are presented as facts”, attacked a source close to the head of state and quoted by Le Figaro.
